FINE MINERAL COLLECTION and INVENTORY LIQUIDATION AUCTION (set 2 of 2) - end Aug 24th, 2017

Ends Thursday, August 24th, 2017
at 6:45 PM (Central Time Zone)

This week's auction is filled with new material we picked up over the last few months along with rarities, unusual pieces, gem crystals, classics and display specimens. You'll even find a few fossils, carving and gemstones mixed in every now and then. Look for pieces mixed in from various collections we've obtained including Willard Wulff, Kay Robertson, Francesco Bedogné, and Paul Zerfass, along with dealers' inventories. Look here for the not so typical mineral specimens along with plenty of your favorites. We don't just offer the "standard 20 species", but an eclectic mix of specimens that appeal to everybody! Enjoy!


Some of the highlights from this week's include:
1. Beautiful, classic orange PYROMOPRHITE crystals on matrix from the Bunker Hill Mine in Idaho
2. Rarely seen twinned CASSITERITE with TOURMALINE from the Viloco Mine in Bolivia
3. A very gemmy, fine quality, "Alpine"-type APATITE from Pakistan â?" plus another APATITE with green "Byssolite" inclusions from another find in Pakistan
4. A HARD TO FIND HEMATITE specimen from the Kay Robertson Collection from Naica, Mexico!
5. Lovely bi-color blue and colorless "phantom" FLUORITE from a new find in Pakistan
6. A 315 gram light blue color TOPAZ crystal from Brazil from the Paul Zerfass Collection
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Goethite (crystallized) with Hematite on Microcline
Lakeview Lode, Park County, Colorado
3.6 x 3.2 x 2.2 cm
Stellerite (excellent quality) (ex Richard A. Kosnar Collection)
Braen's Quarry (Sam Braen's Quarry), Haledon, Passaic County, New Jersey
8.7 x 6.8 x 4.2 cm
Amber with insect inclusions
Sabana de la Mar (Sabana), Hato Mayor Province, Dominican Republic
3.5 x 2.1 x 0.4 cm
Cassiterite with Tourmaline (rare association) (ex Brian Kosnar Collection)
Viloco mine, Loayza Province, La Paz Department, Bolivia
5.7 x 3.7 x 1.7 cm
Fluorite with "gem" corners (ex Paul Zerfass Collection)
Elmwood Mine, Smith County, Tennessee
10.7 x 7.4 x 5.2 cm
Strontianite (good quality) (ex Francesco Bedogne Collection)
Oberdorf an der Laming, Laming valley, Bruck an der Mur, Styria, Austria
6.8 x 5.2 x 3.2 cm
Hematite (rare locale) (ex Kay Robertson Collection)
Naica Mine, Naica, Mun. de Saucillo, Chihuahua, Mexico
3.8 x 3.0 x 0.3 cm
Gold on Quartz
Timmins area, Cochrane District, Ontario, Canada
1.7 x 0.8 x 0.6 cm
Kyanite and Pyrophyllite
Graves Mountain, Lincoln County, Georgia
9.8 x 6.7 x 3.2 cm
Hemimorphite
Wenshan Mine, Dulong ore field, Wenshan Autonomous Prefecture, Yunnan Province, China
9.74 x 4.7 x 3.3 cm
Quartz (GEMMY "Faden")
Tole (Tui), Wana, South Waziristan, Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA), Pakistan
7.1 x 2.7 x 1.9 cm
Aurichalcite (ex Bruce J. Murphy Collection)
Cole Mine (Cole Shaft), Bisbee, Cochise County, Arizona
6.6 x 6.3 x 2.7 cm
Microlite (Group) (ex Franceso Bedogne Collection)
Ipe mine, Governador Valadares, Minas Gerais, Brazil
6.1 x 3.7 x 0.4 cm
Amethyst "Flower"
Ametista do Sul, Rio Grande de Sul, Brazil
5.3 x 4.8 x 3.7 cm
Barite with "sugary" Quartz
Sugarbowl Pocket, Murray Mine, Independence Mountains District, Elko County, Nevada
11.3 x 6.7 x 4.3 cm
Wavellite (rare green color)
Siglo XX Mine, Llallagua, Bustillo Province, Potosi Department, Bolivia
3.2 x 2.4 x 2.1 cm
Augelite (rare)
Machacamarca Mine, near Colavi, Dept. Potosi, Bolivia
4.5 x 4.2 x 2.8 cm
Fluorite (new find)
Koh-i-Maran, Kalat District, Balochistan (Baluchistan), Pakistan
7.2 x 4.7 x 3.4 cm
Copper pseudomorph after Aragonite on Copper (rare matrix piece)
Corocoro District, Pacajes Province, La Paz Department, Bolivia
6.6 x 4.6 x 0.8 cm
Azurite in Granite ("K2 stone" "Ketonite")
Foothills of K2 Mountain, on the border between Gilgit-Baltistan northern Pakistan and the Taxkorgan Tajik Autonomous County of Xinjiang, China
2.2 x 1.8 x 0.8 cm
Cassiterite (new find)
Shengus, Haramosh Mts., Skardu District, Baltistan, Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan
2.0 x 1.7 x 0.2 cm
Copper and Silver Amalgum (ex Kay Robertson Collection)
Cashin Mine, La Sal District, Montrose County, Colorado
5.7 x 5.2 x 0.3 cm
Spodumene (52 grams)
Mawi pegmatite, Laghman Province, Afghanistan
7.1 x 2.6 x 1.4 cm
Pyrrhotite (old specimen!)
Migiandone Mine (Miggiandone), Ornavasso, Ossola Valley, Verbano-Cusio-Ossola Province, Piedmont, Italy
6.7 x 3.6 x 2.1 cm
Fluorite (GEM quality)
Llamas Quarry, Duyos, Obdulia vein, Caravia District, Caravia mining area, Asturias, Spain
1.0 x 0.9 x 0.8 cm
Bixbyite
N'Chwaning II Mine, N'Chwaning Mines, Kuruman, Kalahari manganese field, Northern Cape Province, South Africa
2.2 x 1.8 x 1.4 cm
Vanadinite on Barite
Mibladen, Midelt, Khenifra Province, Meknes-Tafilalet Region, Morocco
3.3 x 3.2 x 2.1 cm
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